Self-locking wire picket



(No Model.)

J. HORROOKS.

SELF LOOKING WIRE PIGKET.

Patented 0013. 19, 1886.

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,110, dated October 19, 1886.

Application filed July 14, 1886. Serial No. 208,001. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

ie it known that l, Josh-U1 HORROCKS, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Self-Locking Twisted-\Vire Fence-Pickets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of my improved pickets enlarged. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a section offence formed with my improved pickets.

The object of this invention is to improve the construction of the self-locking twistedwire fence-pickets for which Letters Patent, Serial No. 197,956 were allowed June 11,1886, in such a mannerto make the fence more firm and stable.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the pickets, as will be hereinafter fully described, and then claimed.

A represents the pickets, which are formed of two or more strands of wire twisted to- I getlier.

The pickets A are made in U shape, and have eyes B, one to each, formed in them in the side parts of their bends. The eye B of each picket A is made of sufficient size to re ceive a leg of the adjacent picket, and is formed by spreading the strands of the wires at the desired point, or by inserting a pin or other former between the strands when the said strands are being twisted together.

Upon the opposite sides of the leg of the picket adjacent to the eye B, and at a point a little above the ground-line indicated by the dotted line in Fig. 2, the strands forming the said leg are led off in loops, and the parts of the strand forming each loop are twisted together, forming arms 0. In the outer end of one of the arms 0 is formed an eye, D, and in the outer end of the other arm is formed a double eye, E, the parts of the said eye being at such a distance apart that the single eye of the arm of an adjacent picket can be inserted between the said parts, as shown in in Fig. 2.

The end picket, A, which is first set up, has two arms upon the leg next the eye B, and the inner arm is extended, is made fast to the other leg of the said picket, and has an eye, F, in its center to receive the leg of the next picket. The end picket, A which is last set up, is made without an eye or arm.

In setting up the fence, an end picket, A, is set in the ground, with the leg having the eye B forward. The next picket, A, is then arranged with the leg havingthe eye B forward, its rear leg is passed through the eye B of the end picket, A, and the eye F of the long leg of the said end picket, A, and its ends are thrust into the ground to the required depth. The next picket, A, is then arranged with the leg having the eye B forward, its rear leg is passed through the eye B of the pre ceding picket and through the overlapped eyes of the arms of the two preceding pickets, and its ends are forced into the ground to the required depth, and so on to the end of the section of fence, when the other end picket, A is used.

The end pickets are made of a less width than the other, and with the straight parts of their outer legs longer than those of the inner legs, as shown in Fig. 2, so that all the legs of the pickets in the fence will be at a uniform distance apart, as shown in Fig. 2. Vith this construction the interlocked pickets will form a firm, strong, durable, and ornamental fence.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as 11ew,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The herei n-describod fence picket, formed of two or more strands of wire twisted together, bent into U shape, provided with an eye in its bend at one side of the center thereof, and provided with arms at the opposite sides of the leg next the said eye, in the plane of the picket, and having a double eye in the end of one arm, and a single eye in the end of the other arm, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a fence, the combination of a series of U-shaped pickets, A, provided with eyes B at one side of the centers of their bends, and provided with arms 0 upon the opposite sides of the legs next the eyes B, in the plane of 5 and the eyes of the overlapped arms of the the pickets, and having a single eye at the end of one arm and a double eye at the end of the other arm, each picket having its rear leg passed through the eye of the preceding picket,

JOSHUA HORROOKS.

Witnesses:

two preceding pickets, substantially as herein l EDWARD M. CLARK,

JAMES M. HENLEY.

shown and described,whereby the said pickets 

